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Ben Hall

Personal blog · blog.benhall.me.uk · on HN as ben_hallprogrammingsystems

Ben Hall's personal blog at blog.benhall.me.uk covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only a bare link appears, with no discussion of the writing. Going by the URL slug, the linked post is about making users feel special, and it was shared in a thread about Crashlytics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

ben_hall · 686 karma · member since 2010

Blog.BenHall.me.uk / @Ben_Hall Founded Katacoda.com, acquired by O'Reilly Media (2019)

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Yup: http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2015/01/making-users-feel-special-...

    Comment linking /2015/01/making-users-feel-special-invite-fabric-invite-email

    on “Crashlytics now serves over 1M apps”
  2. Submitted Deploying C# / Mono on Heroku as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Running NancyFX inside a Docker container as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Making users feel special with an invite (or the Fabric invite email) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What happens when an ElasticSearch container is hacked as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Dockerfile and the :latest tag anti-pattern as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Try Node.js v4 in your browser via Scrapbook's playground as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Try Docker 1.8 RC with Scrapbook as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why do round avatars look better than square avatars? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A great example of how to market an iPhone game/application as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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